Posted on 06/01/2016 6:44:01 PM PDT by marshmallow
On Saturday thousands of Muslim worshippers descended on Istanbul's world famous Hagia Sophia, the towering former Byzantine church that is now a museum, to demand the right to pray there, Turkish media reported.
An imam led a prayer in front of the vast building that was once a Greek Orthodox basilica, then a mosque and now a museum before crowds called for it to be restored as a Muslim place of worship.
"Let the chains break, open Hagia Sophia," chanted the crowds who gathered on the plaza in front of the museum, according to Turkey's Dogan news agency.
"In the name of thousands of our brothers we demand to be allowed to pray inside the Hagia Sophia mosque," said Salih Turhan, the president of the Anatolia Youth Association which organised the demonstration coinciding with celebrations for the anniversary of the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople.
Built in the sixth century, Hagia Sophia, which means Holy Wisdom in Greek, was converted to a mosque in 1453 when the Ottomans conquered what was then called Constantinople.
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Always pushing,always.
It is an enduring example of the parasitic relationship between Islam on one hand, and civilization on the other.
I demand it be returned to Christendom.
They must only be at the 10 % of the population. Otherwise the blades would be coming out...
Moslems always antagonize others.
The only prayer for islam is that it die painfully.
They didn’t build it. Desecration doesn’t count.
Using the feral, tribal filth called islam (spit) and civilization in the same sentence, is inappropriate and problematic.
They have mosques all over the place in Turkey. What small % of Christians left, well it took 100 years for them to be allowed to build a church in Turkey just recently.
Islam sucks out whatever pre-history is left from its Jihad.
The imams COULD get an accommodation with Muslim-prayer-hours, AFTER tourist hours.
The middle east has been making accommodations for thousands of years about everything from well water to car water pumps. This would be chump change for them.
I sense anti-Muslim sensationalism here. The Turks have their country, museums, mosques ... and prisons well in hand. They always have, with brute force whenever warranted (and sometimes when unwarranted).
Perhaps one day Russia will rightly return this to the Orthodox Christian church
“Perhaps one day Russia will rightly return this to the Orthodox Christian church.”
From your lips to God’s ears!
“I sense anti-Muslim sensationalism here.”
The problem with anti-Muslim sensationalism is that it has the ring of truth and that there isn’t nearly enough of it.
Kemalist Turkiye and its cohort of urbanized secular Turks are doomed. Turkish leader `Sultan’ Recip Erdogan is a committed Islamist and it is only a matter of time before he presides at the rededication of Hagia Sophia as a mosque.
Next up? St Peter’s Basilica.
So many stories which come from and about the human being hold some truth, some half-truths, some lies...and some DAMN lies.
British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."
Then can Catholics pray in mosques?
Then can Catholics pray in mosques?
Sure, you just have to do it bent over like the other Muslims praying.
Putin's the only one with the balls to do it.
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